Michael Stevens: Vsauce
December 17, 2019
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Michael Stevens: Vsauce
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Michael Stevens: Vsauce
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<p>Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and answer questions that are both profound and entertaining, spanning topics from physics to psychology. As part of his channel he created 3 seasons of Mind Field, a series that explored human behavior.</p>
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<p>Episode links:<br />
Vsauce YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/Vsauce">https://www.youtube.com/Vsauce</a><br />
Vsauce Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tweetsauce">https://twitter.com/tweetsauce</a><br />
Vsauce Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/electricpants/">https://www.instagram.com/electricpants/</a></p>
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<p>00:00 – Introduction<br />
02:26 – Psychology<br />
03:59 – Consciousness<br />
06:55 – Free will<br />
07:55 – Perception vs reality<br />
09:59 – Simulation<br />
11:32 – Science<br />
16:24 – Flat earth<br />
27:04 – Artificial Intelligence<br />
30:14 – Existential threats<br />
38:03 – Elon Musk and the responsibility of having a large following<br />
43:05 – YouTube algorithm<br />
52:41 – Mortality and the meaning of life</p>